Study guide

Lesson 18: What happened to the dinosaurs?

Supplemental materials

Textbook

The Creation Answers Book, Chapter 19

Discussion questions

In your own words, explain the history of dinosaurs according to evolutionists: When did dinosaurs live? Where did they come from? What did they eat
originally? Why do we find dinosaur fossils today? etc.

In your own words, explain the true, biblical history of dinosaurs: When did dinosaurs live? Where did they come from? What did they eat originally?
Why do we find dinosaur fossils today? etc.

Summarise the evidence that humans and dinosaurs co-existed

from the Bible

from archaeology

from more recent anecdotal reports

Review the difference between ‘origins’ and ‘operational science’ (See Chapter 1). Which aspects of paleontology fall under the realm of ‘origins science’? Which aspects are considered
‘operational science’?

Research endangered species programs and extinctions happening in the present. Based on this information, what types of things may have caused the
dinosaurs to become scarce or extinct? Read Did a meteor wipe out the dinosaurs? for information that
refutes a common idea that a meteorite impact caused the dinosaurs to become extinct.

Why is it important that we are able to explain the existence of dinosaurs within a biblical worldview?

If a dinosaur was found to be living today in the remote jungles of New Guinea or the Congo, what would it prove in regard to evolution and
creation?

What are the advantages and problems with using dinosaurs as a creation apologetic?